Perfect Dark Nintendo 64 vs Nintendo Switch Online 

Its because the switch doesnt have an expansion pack port 😂

The missing X tracks is by far the greatest offence here, how dare they do this legendary soundtrack dirty like this.

Blurry Effect broken. Dear god, getting shot by a tranq gun is now an absolute death sentence.

It's so disappointing to see Nintendo actively hunt ROM sites, meanwhile they're just completely incapable of providing a good alternative. Nintendo, I have zero issue with giving you money for legacy games, but the emulation quality has to at least be on par with what the community has done over the years. Honestly if I'm paying you, it should be better even.

Nintendo released an effective advertisement for the PC port.

It's a shame some of these old games get such poor treatment for modern re-releases. They already get enough flack and disrespect by people online, and this always makes it worse. They simply don't educate themselves on the differences, while blindly claiming it's the original product's issues.

Nintendo doesn't understand emulation, it actively resists it.

i gasped when i saw the blurring effect, i can not believe that this got a pass

Wow, this DEFINITELY needs a major patch update. It's a good thing we still got the HD remaster on Rare Replay.

So basically good vs shite

I left this comment on the stream archive but I'll post it here too: The glitched texture in Villa isn't a new issue. The Texture has an incorrect setting which results in it appearing as garbage data but it usually has different, darker colors compared to what was seen in the stream. There is technically an emulation error happening because it looks different but it was always broken. Even if discovered during playtesting, it's not exactly simple to figure out why it looks different when pretty much every other Level Texture in the game is fine. At best you discover it was a pre-existing issue that got overlooked and would need an editor to fix it, which you don't have and it's not a big enough deal to try to get access to one. More likely though you can't figure out why it looks different from the N64 version and have to just go with it because you already spent too much time trying to solve a seemingly impossible issue. For anyone curious it's an issue with the Texture's Mipmap setting, which makes the Texture smaller when farther away. Most Textures in the game have them with the Level Geometry having an On/Off switch for this feature, usually so Textures without Mipmaps don't try to load any. If that switch is wrong though, then the Texture will appear as corrupted data which is what happened in Villa. Extremely simple fix with the GE/PD Setup Editor if you're doing any modding but that's not exactly an option for the NSO version.

Nintendo: *Goes to war with emulation, wiping their own history that they have slim-chances of ever reselling to the public!* Also Nintendo: *Using emulation that's so awful, you're better off using Project 64.*

1:14 TDM with only N-Bombs could be a party!

no suprises there lmao, I imagined it would be a lackluster release

24 years later and they still can’t get it right

That N64 dizzy/blur effect made me nauseous when I was a kid. That plus the 15fps was enough lmao. Literally lost all senses when someone slaps you and the camera goes everywhere.

Remember as the saying goes Emulation can what Nintendon't. Or something like that.

Still baffles me to this day that perfect dark wasn’t delayed for a gamecube release. It would have really help game performance and early cube sales to have an M rated fps. Oh well can’t change the past.

They patched OoT hopefully with enough noise, they'll patch this as well. Let's send them this video.

What's up with NSO games being broken on release? This isn't the first time this has happened.

Jesus Christ that blur and the online. Nintendo what happened to you.

There's also a few things missed: 1. Because there's no N64 Controller Pak functionality, you cannot save your Multiplayer unlocks or Challenge Progress. 2. The NSO version uses US ver. 1.0, which has a serious corruption glitch in the Warehouse Multiplayer arena, where simulants crawling through the vents can cause a garbage data overflow and render the game unplayable upon the next boot up. Also, Trent Easton is invisible when watching the Crash Site outro scene from the theater mode. 3. The N64 Controller icon is not supposed to be visible when wide-screen is activated. This doesn't happen in Goldeneye or Jet Force Gemini. Possibly a glitch on the N64 Mature 17+ app that doesn't exist on the regular version of the app. 4. The Xbox Live Arcade version supports up to 12 players online. Nintendo Switch Online only supports 4 players, which lines up with Goldeneye XBLA's online mode. Also, the XBLA version has Xbox Live public matches, while NSO only supports online with friends, which is comparable to Xbox Live private matches.

Switch users should, switch, to the N64 version. :)

Ah yes, good old-fashioned Nintendo complacency

Legend. I'm so glad people like you exist to reaxmine these ports vs the original art. It really is far more detrimental to gaming than other formats as it's harder to go back and play the original games without the hardware. A lack of concern in representing the game as it was is really upsetting -- especially when it's worse than the original. It takes away some of the magic of the original title for new folks. The bloom lights not being occluded is wild. Honestly, to think that tech on the N64... It's always been one of my favorite games. It set a bar very high back then and, honestly, still today.

I think i like the N64 version better.

They really expect us to pay for bullshit emulation when we can just use an emulator on pc.

Christ, i got halfway through the video shaking my head and it just kept getting worse. Thanks for the in detail exposee here Graslu. It's such a damned shame

Cool comparsion video. They F'ed it up. Again.

Nintendo unintentionally made the best promo for PD's PC port. Edit: Idk why, but the broken blurry effect awfully reminds me of using Flashbangs in CS 1.6 and Source.

1:13 I got dizzy along with Joanna 😵‍💫🫨

The minute they announced it, I knew it would be broken on arrival.

Damn it, Nintendo can't do ANY kind of emulation properly?

I never wanted this gem to be put on NSO for these reasons exactly. For new people who want to try this game, just play the Xbox version or get it on a computer or if you have any access to a N64 and a copy of this game. DON'T PLAY NSO VERSION!!

Wow i never truly appreciated the lighting effects in perfect dark until now. Wow what a fumble lol

Wow, you weren't kidding yesterday, were you...?

It would have been better if the XBLA version had been ported to the Switch and fixed instead of releasing this broken emulation. I hope PD XBLA and PD Zero release for PC and they are all fixed.

I'm not surprised the multiplayer for this on switch sucks balls, didn't the same thing happen with Goldeneye when they release it on the Switch?

How the hell did that blur effect get past QA testing? That's absolutely unacceptable. I'm guessing they didn't even test the game at all.

Nah man that blurry effect turns it up a notch 😂

I noticed the timer in 2:23 shows a gap in between the : and the 1, but on the emulated version it's not rendered correctly (2:41).

Best fps of all history, modern games should use this game mechanics, this game its perfect, amazing story, coop, carrigton institute, aliens, girls, lots of weapons, you can hold lots of weapon at same time, all weapons with double function, bots with their own personality, best multiplayer ever, challenges, everything on this game

I don't even want to think about what would happen if you started an online multiplayer game with all the simulators and full of N-bombs exploding at the same time xD

You know emulation is bad whenever if you paid me to play it I wouldn't.

Look how they massacred my girl :(

Had a friendly aurgument with my mate on the switch version being bad I won when he said "At least its portable you can play it anywhere" I then said to him "So is the steam deck running the PC port.

What a masterpiece fps title. Childhood memories right here I was around 8 years old when I first started to play this game so awesome. Now I have it on the xbox one on Rare replay. Favourite game of all time!

Wow, I didn't know it was gonna be that bad on the Switch. I was gonna buy a second Switch (OLED) just to play this but thanks to your video it deterred my purchase. I ended up grabbing an Xbox Series X yesterday and a copy of Rare Replay instead. Something I've been wanting to do for awhile now.

I liked the better performance (with some exceptions including firing multiple shots) and higher resolution. But i really hope they patch all of these issues. That multiplayer looked like they applied the missing blur effect from the campaign to the entire multiplayer match 😂. I am wondering what emulator they used here or if they used their own in-house version. I was pretty excited for this even with better alternatives out there as not everyone keeps up with the ports and emulation nor wants to set them up / seek out how to. Me personally i just wanted to finally play thru the whole game with the original controller experience to use my N64 Online controller with. I can and have used the controller with emulation before but it gets annoying having to re-assign all of my buttons back and forth between multiple controllers since i dont want to only use the N64 controller at all times, but I think I will heed your advice and try out that PC port finally. I'm curious if the N64 online controller could be used on the PC port but at same time it isnt really a deal breaker either.

If this release was good I'd have bought a Switch just to play it. Safe to say Nintendo won't be seeing any of my money whilst it is in this state.

I wish the N64 was in a higher resolution. Antialiasing, slower frame rate, and no RGB display for PAL almost killed it. Then again, the N64 was known to crash when things got hectic with 8 sims in combat multiplayer. Truly, PD was too radical for anything but PC.

As always, doing gods work Graslu

There's also the ugly UI and text rendering, many emulators get this wrong, text and UI are NOT filtered in PD, even in the original N64 version!

Lovely work as always. At least somebody does!

I think I've seen the glitch on emulators with the X song in Carrington Villa not playing, usually pausing and unpausing resumes at, level 1 did this as well

The online looks playable, although the music sounds terrible. Also the graphics look a lot better/less blurry/grainy/pixelated on the switch version

Hows the emulation on Xbox? Not played it since the n64. Gutted it doesnt work on switch as I have the n64 controller

It's not just raw, it's still frozen! That blur effect upset me deeply but the multiplayer footage was actually hilarious with how bad it was.

Very good work and demonstration.

The blur effect gave me a headache 😅

Raphnet USB N64 adapter + raphnetraw input plugin on emulator = Heaven. Fuck NSO.

How does the Switch version compare to the Rare Replay version on Xbox?

I was laughing seeing the broken dizzy screen effect, but the insane input lag and shooting causing the framerate to drop are 100% deal breakers. Garbage port, as usual with Shitendo.

Interesting that the light goes through everything on the first level like that... Playing the Xbox 360 Emulator Xenia, I've been playing Banjo Tooie on there via XBLA version. Sometimes, the lights do the same exact thing on there that happens here in PD.

i swear that room was upside-down where the elevator is in basement area of the mission DataDyne Defection and also the first area in Extraction

Nintendo Emulation team 🤝4J "Getting Perfect Dark to run correctly anywhere other than the N64 is hard, man"

Looks like Nintendo is trying really hard sabotage the legacy of the N64.

Japanese version doesn't have shooting frame drops, I don't know about the other issues it's odd

How can RareWare games still be on Nintendo if rare have moved over to Microsoft?

Nothing game breaking, but it's a bit disappointing. I wish there was a way to lower the resolution too, it's too high on switch, it breaks the texture quality of the original. Still, it's nice to have this game available on the service, and they'll probably fix these stuff.

Wow this switch port looks awful. That one level with the blur effect literally looks unplayable. So glad emulation scene at least attempts to make things better. Thanks for the upload!

Is there any advantage the NSO version has over the Xbox 360/Rare Replay version even on paper?

I laughed when I noticed it was configured to 4:3 instead of 16:9 by default. Like what? Omg that blurry thing!

Imperfect Dark

Excellent video... Thank you for making it clear to the players. I don't understand Nintendo, and I don't believe they can't make better emulations. I'm going to rescue my old N64 and play it (again) in all its glory. Nice job 👍🏻😁

i'm assuming the 360 and Rare Replay port of Perfect Dark are still the definitive versions?

Now you know why I don't pay for switch online and just use 1964!

It's not on my NSO. I've tried updating it and still no Perfect dark for me :(

How is the rare compilation version on xbox compared to thoses?

If I may ask... is there anything different (better or maybe even worse) with the European version of that game?

I can't stand Nintendo dude. Nintendo, EA & Activision are the big three worst gaming companies of all time. The trash Triangle. Im just gonna stick with the 360/one remaster version thank you very much!

and that's why I would rather stick with the XBLA version. way superior

The audio comparison at the beginning in my opinion is unfair and misleading. You have to gain match for proper audio comparison. In music production and mastering, it happens all the time you add a plugin or compressor or something that sounds 'better' because it's louder, but until you gain match, you can't objectively compare a before and after with audio. It's not lower audio quality on Switch just because it's quieter. That's just biases in our hearing that prefers louder. I gain matched both and the audio quality is basically the exact same once they are peaking at the same max loudness. It definitely looks like there's some stuff they need to patch up and address on the visuals, but after throwing the audio into a DAW myself, I feel pretty confident the quality is the same. They may just have implemented some additional headroom that makes it sound quieter, but nothing you can't address with the volume on your TV's remote.

It's weird that Nintendo released this and Turok on N64 when both games have Remasters. Not sure how the XBLA version compares to the original, but surely it's better than the Switch.

The Xbox live remastered version of perfect dark approx 10 years ago was as good of a remaster as you can ask for. This is similar to the goldeneye experience - it's good to have that nostalgia, however it's poor they have missed basic emulation standards. Including missing carrington villa X music!

Seems like a shorter video might have been to show how the Switch version improves on the original. Hard to believe so many things went wrong on this one.

Do you have a video comparing the original to the PC port?

At this point, I'm surprised this emulator got the vertex colors right.

Also, the text of the gui looks like as emulated , it doesn't looks very well

1:19 MY EYES!

Damn, they gave perfect dark the rockstar definitive edition treatment.

Aaaaaaand once again I am reminded why I download Nintendo ROMs and emulate them the way I want.

One thing they could do is fix the slowdown (this includes audio distortion) during shootouts when too many enemies appear onscreen at once. But to be fair, this was a large game that even the N64 had trouble stabilizing. The original ran better, 10 times better than this but was hard on keeping a good framerate.

I am seriously having a hard time getting through the dataDyne chapter, I am not the best player but it's ridiculous how bad the delay is and how bad the frame drops are. I hope they at least do this one some justice and fix some of the problems.. but unlikely.

Another Nintendo banger. What an embarrassing company.

Nintendo trying to get into the emulation business with its own games be like :

I haven't played the original, but I don't know what you're talking about with that blur effect. It didn't look quite that bad when I played it. Also, I would assume the difference is caused by the render resolution. (Oh yeah, don't enable "high-res" mode in the Switch one, it doesn't help anything that I know of.) To me, it looks like the Switch version tends to run smoother than the N64, that's definitely a plus. As for the online, I remember people complaining about that when N64 first launched on Switch. Some people said it was really bad, but it actually worked well for other people. It really depends on connection stability of _all_ players, it has to keep the emulation completely synchronized. Now, broken textures and missing music, that's crap. And the lack of debris objects. Those are giant problems that should be fixed.

When I was watching ray playing mario party with his friends on the switch alot of lag but when they were playing on emulator no lag and clean, why can nintendo get that right.

It would be interesting to see a similar video comparing the N64, Switch, and the Xbox Live Arcade versions. 🤔

How can they do it so wrong? It must be on purpose. Dont know if it is legal to use the pc port, why didnt they use it?